KERN, John Worth, a Senator from Indiana; born in Alto, Howard County, Ind., December 20, 1849;
attended the common schools and the normal college at Kokomo, Ind.; taught school; graduated from
the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1869; admitted to the bar the same
year and commenced practice in Kokomo; unsuccessful candidate for election to the State house of
representatives in 1870; city attorney of Kokomo 1871-1884; reporter of the Indiana Supreme Court
1885-1889; member, State senate 1893-1897; special assistant United States district attorney
1893-1894; city solicitor of Indianapolis 1897-1901; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for
Governor in 1900 and 1904; unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States on the
Democratic ticket with William Jennings Bryan in 1908; elected as a Democrat to the United States
Senate and served from March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1917; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1916; Democratic caucus chairman 1913-1917; chairman, Committee on Privileges and Elections
(Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses); died in Asheville, N.C., August 17, 1917; interment on the
Kern estate near Hollins, Va.; reinterment in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind., in 1929.